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Article entitled 'A summer night's dream', published in three parts in the ‘United service magazine’, 1890, bound for Lieutenant Douglas Haig of the 7th Hussars (afterwards Field-Marshal Earl Haig) whose signature dated Secunderabad, 1890 is inside the front cover, and whose book-plate (when Earl Haig) is pasted to the flyleaf.
Item
Identifier: MS.9498
Scope and Contents
The article was published in ‘United Service magazine’, June, July and August, 1890, pages 205-229, 357-376 and 385-402.
Dates:
1890.
Article entitled 'Early Scottish history and its exponents' by Alexander Henry Rhind.
Item
Identifier: MS.8029
Scope and Contents
The article was originally contained in the ‘Retrospective Review’, volume i (1853), pages 273-291. It has been separately re-bound, with interleaves, and there are extensive alterations in the author's autograph on most of the printed pages and the interleaves.
Dates:
1853.
Biographical notices of Scottish and other pipers, with notes on persons, places and things connected in any way with piping, compiled by John MacLennan with additions and corrections by Ian H Mackay Scobie.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22130-22133
Scope and Contents
The collection was begun in the late nineteenth century and continued in the twentieth, being entrusted to Ian Scobie in 1944 (MS.22130, folio 2). The latest entry appears to be dated 1956. The entries are written on folio sheets. Press cuttings and other printed extracts and photographs (both originals and copies) have been added, pasted on separate sheets of the same size, to illustrate many of the entries. A number of the additional entries, and additions to existing entries, appear to be...
Dates:
Late 19th century-?1956.
Copies, 18th century, of records of Parliament and of the Privy Council.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.1.6(i)-(ii)
Dates:
1401-1602.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning Charles Roberts and the Scottish Historical Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.339e/58
Dates:
1882.
Drawings of masons' marks, made or collected by Charles S S Johnston, architect, with letters, notes, and excerpts on the subject; the whole arranged by Professor W B Stevenson..
Series
Identifier: MSS.3726-3729A
Dates:
?1897-1923, undated.
Extracts, 17th century, by Lord Fountainhall, from the Books of Adjournal of the High Court of Justiciary, 1584-1655.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.8
Dates:
1584-1655.
Extracts, 17th century, from the Books of Adjournal of the High Court of Justiciary.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.6.16
Dates:
1576-1655.
Extracts, 17th century, from the Books of Sederunt of the Court of Session, 1626-1665.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.3.5
Dates:
1626-1665.
Extracts, 18th century, from the Books of Adjournal of the High Court of Justiciary.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.6.17
Dates:
18th century.
Extracts, 18th century, from the Books of Adjournal of the High Court of Justiciary, 1536-1728.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.23
Dates:
1536-1728.
Extracts, 18th century, of criminal decisions, 1661-1674, from the Books of Adjournal of the High Court of Justiciary.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.24.5.5-24.5.6
Dates:
1661-1674.
Extracts, 18th century, of criminal decisions, 1716-1740, from the Books of Adjournal of the High Court of Justiciary.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.10.1.7
Dates:
6 February-1716-10 March 1740.
Extracts, early 18th century, from the Books of Sederunt of the Court of Session, 1697-1700.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.6.2(i)-(iii)
Dates:
1697-1700.
Extracts, late 17th century, from the Books of Sederunt of the Court of Session, 1532-1689.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.2.5(i)-(ii)
Dates:
1532-1689.
Extracts, late 17th century, of acts of Sederunt, 1552-1677, of the Lords of Council of the Court of Session.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.25.7.2-25.7.3
Dates:
1552-1677.
Genealogical papers on the different branches of the Bruce family collected by Major William Bruce Armstrong for his work ‘The Bruces of Airth and their cadets’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15982-15988
Scope and Contents
Most of the material is printed, with annotations by William Brue Armstrong.
Dates:
Mid 19th century-[before 1892.]
Kilberry book of piobaireachd: papers concerning piobaireachd, being the results of researches into the history of piobaireachd, the quality of the texts available, and problems of performance, compiled by Archibald Campbell, with the assistance of Colonel John P Grant of Rothiemurchus.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22098-22117
Scope and Contents
Archibald Campbell, who entered the Indian Civil Service and retired as Judge of the High Court of Lahore, was the youngest son of John Campbell of Kilberry, and Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society. The material is arranged tune by tune, approximately in the order of appearance in ‘Ceol mor’ by C S Thomason, and consists of copies of the text of each piobaireachd from all authoritative sources, both printed (including some proof sheets) and manuscript....
Dates:
1892-1963, undated.
Letters and papers of, and concerning, Sir Patrick Geddes and Dr Arthur Geddes.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21204-21205
Dates:
1913-1977, undated.
'List of books and pamphlets relating to Orkney and Shetland' by James W Cursiter (Kirkwall, 1894), interleaved, with manuscript and printed addenda by James Shand.
File
Identifier: MS.9159
Scope and Contents
The very extensive notes include extracts from printed catalogues, and inserted at the end of the volume (folio 40) is a letter from James Cursiter to James Shand, 1921, acknowledging receipt of bibliographical notes by [Gilbert] Goudie.
Dates:
1894-early 20th century.
Manuscript music-book, containing ballads, dances, and pianoforte pieces, hymns, and vocal exercises and scales.
File
Identifier: MS.3282
Scope and Contents
The music-book is made up of pages watermarked 1794.
The volume contains ballads, dances, and pianoforte pieces from Scotland and various European countries (passim), hymns (folios 22 verso-31), and vocal exercises and scales (folios 22, 32 verso-33 verso, 70-71 verso). Among the more extended pieces are extracts for pianoforte from Méhul's 'Jeune Henri' of 1797 (folio 67 verso), and from an opera 'Paul and Virginia', possibly that produced in London in 1800; and 'Favourite dances at...
Dates:
?1794-1813.
Manuscript of the first part of 'The howdie', an unfinished story by John Galt.
File
Identifier: MS.5207
Scope and Contents
With the manuscript are the pages of "Tait's Edinburgh Magazine" containing the first part of the story, a typescript of the second part, and a memorandum on the history of the manuscript by Sir Robert Simpson, the latter reprinted and supplemented by William Roughead in his edition.
Dates:
[Circa 1831.]
Manuscripts collected by William Lee Ferguson, Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5170-5177
Dates:
1537-1934.
Microfilm of biographical notices of Scottish and other pipers, with notes on persons, places and things connected in any way with piping, compiled by John MacLennan with additions and corrections by Ian H Mackay Scobie.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1024-1025
Dates:
Late 19th century-?1956.